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“Renault is the team of my history, I will help them until the last lap”

Fernando Alonso it is clear that he is going to leave everything for everything in the three races remaining for the present Formula 1 World Championship to end. The Alpine driver, who already knows that in 2023 he will be at Aston Martin, has no intention of relaxing in the slightest in a final stretch of the championship with many things at stake for the Gauls. Because the Asturian, two-time world champion with Renault, he knows that he owes a lot to the French on his path in the motor world. They were the ones who bet on him, and he went with them with whom he won his two World Cups. And besides, they were also the ones who he was ‘rescued’ from McLaren in 2008, in addition to giving him the opportunity to return to Formula 1 after two years away from the Great Circus. For t...

The magic of luxury: raise your prices to sell even more | Fortune

The classic Chanel 2.55 bagin aged calfskin and gold-tone metal, costs today €8,990. This is 1,290 euros more than it cost at the beginning of this year, a difference well above the price, of about a thousand euros, that the iconic accessory had in the 90s. The rise in price of any product is common in a scenario of inflation like the current one, but the extraordinary thing about luxury is that, unlike other sectors, the more you raise the prices of your items, the more customers want to buy them. This is what the founder of Luxury Advise and director of the luxury program at IE University, Susana Campuzano, calls the Veblen effect. “Price is an indicator of prestige and raising it normally generates an elasticity that goes against the market. However, in luxury it is positive. You raise ...

F1: Verstappen’s breakdown and Mercedes’ domain to open mouth in Zandvoort

Special delivery Zandvoort Updated Friday, September 2, 2022 – 13:54 The World Championship leader suffers a gearbox problem and leaves the way open for the Silver Arrows, with Sainz third and Alonso eighth. The crane removes Verstappen’s Red Bull at Zandvoort.AFP Children and adults, dressed in orange, understood nothing when they saw Max Verstappen stranded on asphalt. Less than 10 minutes, the World Cup leader asked in his home debut, due to a breakdown that left the way clear for the competition. However, it was not Ferrari, from whom much is expected in Zandvoort, but Mercedes, who led the table in the first free practice sessions, with a double of George Russell (1:12.455) and Lewis Hamilton (1:12,695). Carlos Sainz lasted 20 minutes in the lead with his 1:12.845, almost ...

Did you know that the first Porsche Cayenne was tuned in Spain?

For a brand traditionally dedicated to the development of sports cars, making an off-roader it was like jumping into the pool without knowing if there is water inside. That sensation of vertigo was the first felt by the creators of the Porsche Cayenne when they began their development back in 1998. It is true that they had already had experience in the off-road field with the 597 Jagdwagen, but it had nothing to do with making a simple military vehicle than an SUV that would please the general public. We have already talked about the origin of the Cayenne and the success it has had, practically becoming a savior for Porsche that allows them to survive and make other cars today. But what many will not know is that their commissioning took place in Spain, specifically in a small town of Llei...

Lewis Hamilton’s viral tweet to respond to Fernando Alonso who has set social networks on fire

Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso They have had clashes since the arrival of the Englishman in Formula 1. And now there has been a new clash between the two, after the Englishman came out to respond some statements from the Asturian who claimed that Verstappen’s titles had more merit than Hamilton’s. Alonso spoke to ‘De Teelegraaf’, a Dutch newspaper, before the Mexican Grand Prix. And he valued the title won by Max Verstappen in 2021: “I have great respect for Lewis, but it is different to win seven championships when you have only had to fight against your partner. A title like that has less value than when you have less titles, but you have had to fight against pilots equal to or with better material than you”. These statements, although they could a...

F1: Never Say Never: Fernando Alonso’s Last Challenge at Aston Martin

Special delivery Zandvoort Updated Saturday, September 3, 2022 – 02:22 The Asturian will land in 2023 on a squire that rolls 1.59 seconds from the head, despite his improvement. Vettel, in the Aston Martin garage, in a 2022 World Cup race.ASTON-MARTIN Free 1 Verstappen breakdown and Mercedes dominance Alonzo and Hamilton An infinite rivalry… beyond apologies Leaving the fourth team, where he lives as safe as he lacks incentives, for the ninth, in which a promisingly uncertain future awaits. It is the path chosen by Fernando Alonsoa controversial and inexplicable genius who walked yesterday in Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time offer and access all web content I love you Already Premium? Log in

the eleventh installment of Ken Block’s Gymkhanas

Our favorite pilot when it comes to dodging planes, jumping through the dirt and passing inches from stone walls is back. That’s how it is, Ken Block has finally unveiled the eleventh installment in its crazy “Gymkhana” film series. Although, given that this is the first to feature an electric car, a spectacular prototype created by Audi called S1 e-tron Quattro Hoonitron, the event has been renamed the “Electrichana”. As with the other short films in his “Gymkhana”, the “Electrikhana” shows Block on the streets of Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) doing what he knows how to do best: burn the tire and go from side to side doing maneuvers that we could define as reckless if they were not done on a section closed to traffic. But besides being the first set in the streets of the Sin Citythis one ...

F1: Verstappen resurrects at home with a great ‘pole’ in the face of harassment from Ferrari

Special delivery Zandvoort Updated Saturday, September 3, 2022 – 16:46 The leader of the World Cup surpasses Leclerc and Sainz, while Alonso falls for the first time in Q1 and starts thirteenth. Verstappen, during Saturday’s qualifying session in Zandvoort.AFP In unison roared Zandvoort with the pole of Max Verstappen, the fourth of this World Cup which will soon end. The volume of the loudspeakers exploded as a tribute to the idol and they clenched their fists in the Red Bull garage. There they had worked hard at dawn to recover the car from its mechanical problems and leave the rest in the hands of their leader. With such a party in the stands, Verstappen fulfilled his part (1: 10,342), with 21 thousandths over charles leclerc and 92 to Carlos Sainz. “We have changed a ...

Fernando Alonso condemns the harassment in networks of the US commissioners: “It is unacceptable”

Fernando Alonso has published on Instagram a story in defense of Silvia Bellot, curator at the United States Grand Prixwhich has received great harassment on social networks after the race dispute in Austin. The last Grand Prix was marked by the controversial sanction to Alonsowho was penalized 30 seconds after the end of the race for having driven several laps without a mirror, although the FIA ​​did not give them any order to stop, they passed a technical inspection and the penalty was caused by a protest delivered late by Haas. Although finally the sanction was revoked and Alonso recovered his seventh position in the United States, in the days that passed between both decisions, social networks were filled with insults and threats to all the commissioners who participated in the United ...

F1: Alpine threatens ruin after the traumatic goodbye of Piastri and Alonso

Special delivery Zandvoort Updated Saturday, September 3, 2022 – 18:05 The Australian, until now a reserve driver, will strengthen McLaren while the figures of Szafnauer and Rossi are weakened. Alonso, during the second practice session at Zandvoort.EFE Early on Saturday, when not even the F3s had warmed up at Zandvoort, Otmar Szafnauer I went to the official FIA press conference like a sheep going to the slaughterhouse. Alpine’s boss had breakfasted on an interview from Oscar Piastri in which the young driver accused the French team of “annoying”, “strange” behavior and a “lack of clarity” that ended up precipitating his signing for McLaren. Exactly one month after the goodbye of Fernando AlonsoSzafnauer permanently lost the talent called to...

“Now they have complete freedom to use the money”

Updated: Oct 29, 2022 | 06:00 Oct 29, 2022 | 12:52 Ferrari is not clear on what has been sanctioned against Red Bull. Yes they know they have to pay 7 million fine and that they will have 10% less of wind tunnel use, but the real effectiveness for Carlos Sainz’s team is not so evident. And it is that, in the mouth of Laurent Mekies in Sky Italia, in Maranello they believe that even Red Bull could take advantage of the penalty to improve more than the others for the next season. The reason, that 10% less wind tunnel they have for 2023. According to Ferrari, the money that would go to that expense now you can go “somewhere else”. “They could reduce the weight of the car or who knows what,” says Mekies. And he argues: “They have complete freedom to use the ...

F1: Verstappen ends the World Cup Abu Dhabi style and Alonso completes a great comeback

Special delivery Zandvoort Updated Sunday, September 4, 2022 – 17:40 The Red Bull leader prevailed ahead of Russell and Leclerc at Zandvoort, where Alonso finished sixth and Sainz eighth, the victim of two catastrophic pit-stops. Verstappen, after his victory on Sunday at Zandvoort.AFP It was a miniature reissue of Abu Dhabi 2021, that race in which Max Verstappen crowned for the first time. Without the importance of that one, because this World Cup was almost sentenced, but with an almost identical plot, to the delirium of the Dutch fans. The great local idol won in Zandvoort, ahead of George Russell Y charles leclerccombining authority and a certain fortune, strategic aim and pure speed, with a quick tip turn (1:13.652) and moral slap for Lewis Hamiltonwho lost the podium in the fi...